Historical Events In May - 07
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1960 On May - 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances on this day in history.
1960 Leonid Brezhnev becomes the President of the USSR on this day in history.
1960 On May - 07 leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
1960 On this day in history michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on May - 07.
1962 On this day in history pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island on this day in history.
1962 Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77 on this day in history.
1963 On this day in history bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champion
1963 On May - 07 sETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1966 On May - 07 mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1967 On May - 07 judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54
1968 Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 on May - 07.
1969 On May - 07 lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release on May - 07.
1970 Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60 on May - 07.
1971 On May - 07 willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) on this day in history.
1973 US President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair on this day in history.
1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) on this day in history.
1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" on May - 07.
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays on May - 07.
1977 Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.
1980 On this day in history josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC on this day in history.
1981 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.
1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1 on this day in history.
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.
1982 Alfred Adam, dies at 72 on May - 07.
1983 On this day in history august Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 Peter Edel, writer, dies on May - 07.
1984 On this day in history $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1984 On May - 07 in Southern Italy a 5.8 earthquake killed three people and at least 100 injured, and extensive damage in the Abruzzo area
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